... 's Harlem, a woman holds the two-week-old infant in her arms. The little body trembles and twitches with pain, but Clara Hale has no medicine to offer against that agony, unless you count love. In an old bentwood rocker, she soothes the hurting child. "I ... proper churchmanship. I think of Linus and his sister, Lucy, in Charles Schulz's PEANUTS cartoons. Linus says to Lucy in the first frame: "You think you are smart just because you are older than I am! Lucy gets up and walks off but Linus follows, saying ...
... fortunate as we? And we do need to remind ourselves. We are much like Charlie Brown in the PEANUTS cartoon series. Lucy is seated comfortably in her ben bag chair watching television. She asks Charlie Brown: "How about getting me a dish of ... home parlor. When did we see you? Wherever there is hunger or thirst or nakedness or loneliness or fear or hurt, he is there. Edward Everette Hale once put it like this: Is there some desert or pathless sea Where Thou, good God of angels, wilt send me? Some oak for me to ...
